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Will the Iphone become the Macintosh of the 1990's?
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 925423"><p>I think the cloud computing and similar storage schemes future suffered greatly from this week's meltdown in T-Mobile's Sidekick service. Yes, they think it can be restored, but for serious business the spectre of losing two or three days because some cloud went down is not acceptable. Cloud computing, when kept within the corporate control, is a more acceptable risk. So in that model a company has an internal cloud which is available to their assets, not outside. Smaller companies may have to have public clouds, but that will come at the risk T-Mobile has exposed. I don't think any serious CIO can say with a straight face to his board of directors that cloud computing in a public provider is a wise thing to do until the T-Mobile memory is very, very old and fading. I know I wouldn't suggest an outside cloud to anybody right now. Microsoft, if they want to push cloud, have to solve the major shot they took this week. </p><p></p><p>The iPhone is not currently taken seriously as a business machine, probably because it isn't marketed as such. The apps Apple pushes in the advertising are games or gimmicks, not serious business functions. If Apple want to get serious, the hardware will support serious business use, but they don't seem to target that sector. Compare the "there's an app for that" ads to the Blackberry ads about doing business. Blackberry is taken as a serious business machine, not a toy, while the iPhone is exactly the opposite.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 925423"] I think the cloud computing and similar storage schemes future suffered greatly from this week's meltdown in T-Mobile's Sidekick service. Yes, they think it can be restored, but for serious business the spectre of losing two or three days because some cloud went down is not acceptable. Cloud computing, when kept within the corporate control, is a more acceptable risk. So in that model a company has an internal cloud which is available to their assets, not outside. Smaller companies may have to have public clouds, but that will come at the risk T-Mobile has exposed. I don't think any serious CIO can say with a straight face to his board of directors that cloud computing in a public provider is a wise thing to do until the T-Mobile memory is very, very old and fading. I know I wouldn't suggest an outside cloud to anybody right now. Microsoft, if they want to push cloud, have to solve the major shot they took this week. The iPhone is not currently taken seriously as a business machine, probably because it isn't marketed as such. The apps Apple pushes in the advertising are games or gimmicks, not serious business functions. If Apple want to get serious, the hardware will support serious business use, but they don't seem to target that sector. Compare the "there's an app for that" ads to the Blackberry ads about doing business. Blackberry is taken as a serious business machine, not a toy, while the iPhone is exactly the opposite. [/QUOTE]
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